Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-27
THE SPIRIT WORLD.
Last Evenings Queer Ssancs at the Capitol
Rink Theatre.
4 LARGE CROWD In ATTENDANCE
To See Anna Eva Fay and Her Rsinus Of
Assistants Attempt
TO CONJURE UP GAUZY GHOSTS.

lt0l hlnk, last evening", 10 pe entei laine'
by the residents of the spirit world, assist
ed by Miss Anna Eva Fay, whose coming
was beralded through the newspapers anC
with the assistance of glaring yellow bills
which literally covered Market street
Yesterday. Miss Fay vas to be assisted
by Profs. Hearne and Williams, th,
eminent mediums, and she WAS
The audience for the most part, wa
composed of intelligent, cultivated citi
zens, and of course all the ~spiritualists il
the city were present The audience, was
so large, in fact, that it was a very profit
able one and the spirits should have beef
in their very best moods. They should
really always be when they have such s
charming person as Miss Fay to invoke
them.
The lady has been fully described in the
REGISTER and when she appeared on the
stage last evening she looked very hand
some and exceedingly spirituelle in an
elaborate costume Of yellow silk or satin
elegantly made. Had the people paid
their money to see her alone they would
have been better satisfied, but they went
with the expectation of seeing spirit forms
and faces and see and hear spirit hands
play Oh musical instruments, dance tables
and pianos around the stage, &c, &c. All
this they were prepared to see. We're
their expectations realized? Well, let Us
see.
When the curtain arose n cabinet was
exposed TO view, the same old chestnut
ls ,at nhaotrnt mood. fha nthas
kind of chestnut. One of the pro
fessors then delivered a lecture so long
that the people prayed for spirit hands 10
come and carry him away, but they
wouldn't, and he was allowed to have his
say. That was all right, it occupied time
and he got paid for that, and then it was
such o nice, large fat audience. But to con-
tinue. The professor asked that two prom
inent citizens he named as a committee To
go up on the stage and examine the cabi-
net. Several well known citizens were
nominated, but when called upon they
failed to respond and volunteers were in
order. One man jumped up. whom the
bows called Scott and the professor picked
out an old gentleman who sat up in front
and these two went up on the stage,
glanced at the cabinet and said it was all
right, no machinery about that. Then
Miss Fay came out. The committee tied a
strip of muslin around each OF her wrists
then stamped the work with their
seal, pieces of green
gummed paper which We re pasted over the
strips and onto the arms. The knots were
also scwed. Miss Fay then assumed a
seat in the cabinent and the committee
tied her hands behind her back TO a ring
which was screwed into a board. Her
feet were tied together with n rope, and
one Of the committee watched the other
end. Her neck was also tied to the
stanchioD. In fact she was not
only tied but tidy. Musical instru
were then placed in
the cabinet, the curtain closed and the
''speerits' began to get in their work in
great shape. In the meantime Scott" n
member of the investigating committee,
was having loads of fun with himself, and
the audience wa kept almost continually
laughing at his actions. Probably this
disgusted the spirits. The regular couven-
tiOnal cabinet performance then ensued,
Dul lc ld'htt hhS Az ," oHu
that the audience really would
have felt bored, had it not
been for Miss Fay, who looked real
sweet through it all, and the male portion
put in their time looking at her attractive
face, and laughing at the antics of Scott"
1t is needless To particularize the doings
of the spirits. They were all old, and
have been exposed in Wheelingmor than
Pretty soon the Preseason took a hand at
naturalization. He tied himself up and
took his coat Off, rang bells, tangled the
tamborine aud tried TO put SCOTS" coat
while Scott had Jun with the Pro-
spade tail. During this time the
other professor did the talking, and every
body seemed to he having a good time; at
least the kids in the audience did.
After awhile the Professor announced
q manifestation wOnld be given under
the gaslight, that is outside Of the cabinet
with all the light turned on full. To az.
sist in this he called on a lady from the
audience, and q tall, amply proportional
old lady left her seat and went upon the
stage. The cabinet had been filled with
all sorts of articles and the curtain tackled
shut. Then three chairs were placed in
front. The old member of the committee
took the middle chair, the old lady, who is
a firm believer in spiritualisnI, and a
medium herself, the upper end chair,
and Anna Eva the other end. The elderly
party who occupied the middle chair then
squeezed the hands of the two ladies and
put an q far away expression as if he were
yGarnine from the very bottom of his soul
the spirits TO come. Then the three
were immersed up to their necks in a cur
tain which covered their bodies, leaving
Int their heads sticking out like
Iacks.in-the. box. Bells then began 10
ring, the guitar to twang and a big
;alla lily came out through the cabinet and
Iickled the old gentlcman's ear, much
10 the amusement Of the spectators. A
whole bunch Of flowers also came out
through the aperture in the cabinet from
which Scott" gathered 4 %boutOnniere and
To the lapel of his coat while the
were thrown 10 the audience. The
old lady left the stage happy, with a large
lily i'll her hand. The cabinet was
again examined by the committee in their
peculiarly careful manner, and they pro-
nounced it solid goods, a yard wide.
Miss Fay then introduced a mechanical
hand, which answered questions by taps.
1t was the most interesting thing ON the
programme. The professor then stated
that on account of the dampness they
not materalize the spirits, and it is
presumed the spirits were afraid of taking
cold. lie said Miss Fay had received q
request to return at an early day, and she
would do 80, when the Opera House
would he occupied. The curtain
then went down on a crowd Of dis
appointed people and amidst a murmur OF
from n thousand mouths. They
not have been disappointed at not
having seen spirits. They were certainly
too intelligent to think OF such a thing.
But the American people are not happy
unless they are being deceived, and the
crowd last evening evidently only kicked
because the delusion practiced upon them
was not of a better quality and there was
not more oft. Had they gone TO the Opera
House they would have seen something and
received their moneys worth. Twas ever